News for Members and Friends
of the Rotary Club of Greater Woodinville

Reach Within to
Embrace Humanity

An excellent presentation on how Woodinville
Rotary Club has become the community's unofficial
'Center for Sustainable Giving'

Can we keep it up?

     Learn how Woodinville Rotary can "grow" $16,000 in our charitable giving into $82,000 to benefit the mobility disabled in Mexico, to enhance our Rotary Community Park in Woodinville, to assist homeless mothers with children in Duvall and to provide the very first treatment program for the mentally ill in Kathmandu, Nepal.

And, we'll ask how 'sustainable' members feel about supporting this year's fund raising dinner and auction!

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____ 40 Days, You will find out Who's Panicking? ___

Charity Event.  40 days to go until Oktoberfest. Have you procured an auction item or two or three? Do you have commitments from at least four guests to join you? Have you registered online? Focus on Kids and Education.   Meet Pauline Robin-- Pauline is scheduled to attend her first Rotary meeting and receive her blue badge as our exchange student from France.   21 Acres Opening -- Woodinville Rotarians joined supporters of the 21 Acres Center for Local Food and Sustainable Living for the opening Friday. 21 Acres has promised an item for our Oktoberfest dinner auction and the club is planning to schedule one of our November breakfast meetings at the Center once the commercial kitchen and events spaces are up and running.   Rotary Community Park -- The Rotary power-washing contingent completed the cleaning of the boardwalk on the west side of the trail loop during a work party this past Saturday. One more concentrated effort on the east side should complete the project. Joining leader Tim House were Alex and Matthew Hopkins, Becky Clark, Greg Gratz, John Hughes, Gordy Green and Gary Whitsell (the donuts man). Stay tuned for the next scheduled get together. There was no lack of Saturday supervisors!   Rotary First Harvest Work Party Sept. 8 The general secretary of Rotary International will be paying a visit to the Puget Sound and District 5030 next month. One of the events being staged during his visit will be a Rotary First Harvest workparty on September 8 from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the warehouse in Kent. If you are interested in participating, contact our RFH rep Jon Bylin or community service chair Greg Gratz. Or, contact RFH directly.  ___________________________________   Register Yourself and Guests for Oktoberfest Our audience development team encourages you to follow these easy-to-do steps http://wrc.maestroweb.com When you open this webpage, note the "RSVP instructions", then look at the top for "RSVP" and click on this link. The link takes you to the registration form. Enter meal requests, names, e-mail info etc. Under Payment Method, answer "Prepaid Rotarian". http://wrc.maestroweb.com     SAVE the DATE We have provided an electronic SAVE the DATE document for members to forward or send to their invitees. Printed copies are available at Tuesday meetings. The plan is for all registrations to be done electronically this year. Members will be responsible for seeing that their guests are registered.   to open the Save the Date card ______________________________________ For each procured auction item turned in at all future meetings through Oct. 4, the member bringing in either a silent or live auction item will receive a ticket or tickets for the marble box drawing!